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How do you select barrel length?
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<blockquote data-quote="royinidaho" data-source="post: 158972" data-attributes="member: 2011"><p>James pretty much hit the nail on the head.</p><p></p><p>I am finiky about overall barrel length, length ahead of action before it starts to taper and expecially the shape of the first part of the curve ahead of the taper starting point.</p><p></p><p>A straight taper from about 3" ahead of action to the muzzle just doesn't look good to me. At all!</p><p></p><p>I looked at a Savage the other day that had little dinky flutes from behind the muzzle to only the tip of the fore end. Gross /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif</p><p></p><p>Heavy sporter ought to have at least a 26" bbl. Why, I'm a velocity hawg. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif</p><p></p><p>A 26" Remington sporter barrel on my old REM 722 in 222 REM is practically useless on a running coyote under 40 yards.</p><p></p><p>As James Jones said the choice of barrel length and shape is up to you. That's why smiths have mills/lathes and hack saws. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="royinidaho, post: 158972, member: 2011"] James pretty much hit the nail on the head. I am finiky about overall barrel length, length ahead of action before it starts to taper and expecially the shape of the first part of the curve ahead of the taper starting point. A straight taper from about 3" ahead of action to the muzzle just doesn't look good to me. At all! I looked at a Savage the other day that had little dinky flutes from behind the muzzle to only the tip of the fore end. Gross [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Heavy sporter ought to have at least a 26" bbl. Why, I'm a velocity hawg. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] A 26" Remington sporter barrel on my old REM 722 in 222 REM is practically useless on a running coyote under 40 yards. As James Jones said the choice of barrel length and shape is up to you. That's why smiths have mills/lathes and hack saws. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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